Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-05-31
Local Miscellany.
eli fell here last Friday.

on trip 10 fhlladelpnlh.
Lieut.. E. S. Avis, U. s. A, visited
his mother in place, last week.
A rope-walker performed on Main
street last Tuesday afternoon.
Thehammock is now being brought
forth from its winter quarters.
Messrs. Earnshaw & Dooley tin
rooted the new house of Mr.. d. S.
Hughes.
Memorial Day in Charlestown,
Saturday, June 4M. Ceremonies at
IL A. NJ.
"Thunder and Lightning!"-
that's what's the matter with the tel
ephone just now.
The Charlestowu colored band fur
hished the music at Storer College
commencement.
Middleway and vicinity was visited
with another hail-storm last thursday,
but no serious damage done.
The whitewash artists have been at
work, and enhanced the appearance
of number of town properties.
Potomac Commandery, No. 5,
Knights Templar, meets Tuesday
evening, June 9TH, at z! O'Clock.
Hon. VIM. ]. Stone, of kentucky,
will deliver the address on Memorial
Day Saturday next) in Charlestown.
The Ladies of the Methodist
Church will continue their Strawberry
Festival over this Monday evening.
The. fellow who growled so much
about the cold weather last winter
will soon be growing because 1t is too
hot.
Mr.. James w. Butt has tin-roofed
the new addition to Mr.. Jobe's Wool
en- Factory and the dwelling of Mr..
Jacob b. Brown.
Mr.. L. C. Davenport has resigned
his position as craftsman in the Roa-
noke machine shops, and is taking a
vacation at home.
Next stated rendezvous of Gustav
Brown Consistory on June 9th, at 4
L. VI. A full attendance of members
requested. Work on hand.
Mr.. Charles Myers, telegraph oper-
ator at the S. V. r. Il. bridge at
Shepherdstown, was slightly shocked
by lightning last Wednesday.
Yesterday was commencement day
at Storcr College, Harpers Ferry, and
over one hundred excursion tickets
were sold at the B. & o. depot to our
colored friends.
Letters are advertised at Charles
ton for J. B. Brown, f. S. Butler,
Thomas Bragg, c. l.. Dawson, Rob-
ert a. Dunn. John w. Locke and
Mrs. Van Perry.
Mcssrs. Locke & Light are now
listing stock for June sales, and far
mcrs having stock to offer should call
upoa them at once. See advertise
ment in this issue.
Mr.. J. A. Davenport and wife, of
BoookIyn, n. Y, arc visiting Mrs.
Martha Beal!, mother of Mrs. Daven-
port. Mr.. Davenport will in few
days go on the permanent way engin-
Ger work of the Richmond & Danville
Railroad.
A handsome balloon, bearing the
inscription For Governor r. Preston
Cher,'' was successfully sent up
from Charlestown last Wednesday
evening, and moved majcstically
northward until lost to sight in the
dim distance.
Attention of farmers is called to
the advertisement of Messrs. Conklyn
& Hefebowcr, dealers in all kinds of
agricultural implements and agents
for the celebrated Osborne binder
Their Office and room is in the east
side of the Rink Building.
Messrs. John SatterIee and Foster
r. Morss, of New York, and Maj.
Chaunccy Ives, of Chambersburg,
Pa, were in town last week, in at
tendance on the trial, in our Circuit
Court, of the case of Sattcrlce & Co.
vs.. President of the Co. Court.
Albert Mott and II. f. Brown,
members of the Maryland Bicycle
Club, of Baltimore, stopped at the
Carter House on Thursday night
They had visited various points in
the Valley on their wheels, and were
on their return trip homeward.
Bishop Peterkin, of the P. f.
Church, during his late visitations to
Berkeley and Jefferson, administered
the rite of confirmation to eighty
seven candidates nearly half the to-
tai number of combinations in the
entire State since the 1st of June of
last year.
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